Rajendra S Pawar, an alumnus of IIT, Delhi, co-founded NIIT, a global IT learning solutions company. A visionary and developer of human resource potential, Pawar has played a key role in instituting quality processes and Crosby's Complete Quality Management System at NIIT.

He is interested in foreseeing the trends and crucial directions in the deployment of IT for quantum change in organisation effectiveness. He is a member of the National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development. He heads the quality committees of various industry bodies.